Last summer, Michael Vu, a 40-year-old independent IT consultant, found himself in a wholly unexpected place midway through his career. He’d signed a three-week contract to help a major U.S. retailer ...

The economic shutdown due to the novel coronavirus pandemic has caused a massive surge in unemployment benefit claims nationwide. Unfortunately, in many states across the US, unemployment benefit ...

Earlier this month, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy made an urgent call for programmers who have experience with COBOL — a programming language over 60 years old — to help the state deal with the ...

The 60-year-old programming language that powers a huge slice of the world’s most critical business systems needs programmers Some technologies never die—they just fade into the woodwork. Ask the ...

The legacy programming language that refuses to die is still powering millions of daily transactions, but the difficulties of maintaining and integrating Cobol mainframes make the case for ...

I'm going to be starting college close to the end of next year so i was trying to figure out what area of computer technology i wanted to really delve into.So i started doing searches on mainframe ...

(Updated 4/10: IBM and the Linux Foundation have partnered to set up a portal for both experienced and new COBOL coders to share resources and find opportunities. Here's a link to IBM's press release ...

The Open Mainframe Project is intended to serve as a focal point for deployment and use of Linux and Open Source in a mainframe computing environment. The four new projects are CBT Tape, GenevaERS, ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Job seekers' interest in a vintage programming language has spiked in the wake of the coronavirus ...

Perhaps rather unexpectedly, on the 14th of March this year the GCC mailing list received an announcement regarding the release of the first ever COBOL front-end for the GCC compiler. For the ...